Pastoral Resources

That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

First round of the tournament being a Major, I think the butterflies were a little different than that.

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die.

Contrary to popular belief, Americans don't hate advertising.

If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.

A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives.

In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.